11.   He was joined by Jim Cloos, cabinet chief to the European Union presidency.

12.   Hoping to boost auto sales, Volvo reshuffled the executives in its car division and promoted the chief to vice president, the company said Wednesday.

13.   Israel had detained Col. Munir Aboushi, the deputy police chief to the West Bank town of Tulkarem, last month on suspicion he ordered attacks on Jewish settlers.

14.   Jakes Gerwell, the Cabinet chief to South African President Nelson Mandela who is a go-between in the negotiations, visited Libya this week after coming to London.

15.   Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Amman with an antidote for the poison.

16.   One night, Franciscato went with an Indian chief to the Jamari area of the reservation to check reports of loggers illegally cutting cherry wood and mahogany.

17.   Ross met in Israel with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, hoping to lure the military chiefs back to the negotiating table.

18.   Russia dispatched its top security chief to Chechnya on Tuesday as resurgent fighting shattered weeks of relative calm.

19.   Russia sent its top security chief to Chechnya today to try to restore quiet as fighting shattered weeks of relative calm in the battered capital of the breakaway republic.

20.   Sandia began the project a year ago by asking police, from chiefs to officers on the street, what they require in a weapon.